Well, the 2018 Christian Acappella Music Awards weekend is officially in the books! A wonderful success, it came together this year in the most unlikely fashion. Eventually we’ll be able to write something more substantial about it; but, for now, here are the recipients as well as the 2018 Souvenir booklet.
Finally completed the first official ad campaign for the 2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards. I’m in the process of developing around 15 separate pieces of collateral for printing over the next 2 days. This downtime over the holiday weekend will hopefully allow me to get a lot of the prep work done before we send everything off to the printer.
I’ve finally completed the media strategy for CAMA 2012; Simply waiting for the go-ahead to send our first campaign materials to press. Until then, I’m redeveloping all of our marketing materials for 2012, including our media guides.
In that it’s now October, the weekend is starting to come together the way it was initially envisioned. Time now for the planning and development aspects of the Christian Acappella Music Awards. We’ve already decided upon the Event Weekend Performance parameters.
Event Logistics
As has been decided, the 2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards will be held in Nashville, Tennessee. My choice was Miami, Florida, but, ultimately, the feeling was that the market could sustain a program of this size and the overall location was central enough that our ticket-purchasing base would be enticed to attend.
Pricing is always a major concern for any event. CAMA, because of its nature, requires extreme care when dealing with pricing. So, in preparing to develop a revenue model for the 2012 weekend, here’s where we are in terms of weekend pricing.
Branding
I’ve finished a first drafts of the promotional logo for the 2012 Awards.
We’ll see how those look in a week or two as we begin to develop our first promotional campaign for November, 2011. That’s where we are after some initial planning for the 2012 show. Pricing and Branding are always main points for us, and hopefully we’ll be able to settle on a couple of ideas soon.
Admittedly, it has taken a while to get things where I want them this particular CAMA year. There have been a number of things that have prohibited me from really putting forth the full effort I had planned on presenting for this years program. However, the good thing about strategic work is that you generally have an idea months in advance and just allow it to simmer for a while until the time is right to deliver a completed product. In the case of the parameters for the 2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards, much of the heavy lifting was done long ago on various evenings when a thought would come to me and I would do some jotting. In that it’s now September, the show is starting to come together the way it was initially envisioned, save for the production company whom we have yet to decide on. But, with essentially 14 months to go, we’re pretty much where we want to be from a program/weekend management standpoint. And so, I’ve decided to go ahead and present the parameters for the show in whole.
Good Times //
2012 Performance Criteria
Performance slots for the 2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards are based on the following criteria for each of its 17 openings.
3 performance slots are given to new artists who have never performed at Christian Acappella Music Awards, regardless of nomination in the program.
1 performance slot is utilized for the Grand Finale, where all artists performing at the 2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards will be asked to perform a song to be chosen by NACAMA.
4 performance slots utilized for previous recipients of awards at Christian Acappella Music Awards.
6 performance slots utilized for nominees for 2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards.
3 performance slots to be distributed by NACAMA at its discretion.
Running times
2012 CAMA Thursday Evening Concert – 135 Minutes
2012 CAMA Friday Evening Concert – 150 Minutes
CAMA Matinee One (Friday) – 115 Minutes
CAMA Matinee Two (Saturday) – 121 Minutes
The 2012 CAMA Pre-Show – 28 minutes
The 2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards – 180 minutes
Start times
2012 CAMA Thursday Evening Concert – 6:00 pm et
2012 CAMA Friday Evening Concert – 6:00 pm et
CAMA Matinee One (Friday) – 12:35 pm et
CAMA Matinee Two (Saturday) – 12:15 pm et
The 2012 CAMA Pre-Show – 5:55 pm et
The 2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards – 6:25 pm et
Performance Slots
2012 CAMA Thursday Evening Concert – 10 Performance Slots
2012 CAMA Friday Evening Concert – 12 Performance Slots
CAMA Matinee One (Friday) – 4 Performance Slots
CAMA Matinee Two (Saturday) – Closed Program
The 2012 CAMA Pre-Show – 3 Performance Slots
The 2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards – 17 Performance Slots
Time Allotted Per Performance
2012 CAMA Thursday Evening Concert – 12 Minutes
2012 CAMA Friday Evening Concert – 11 Minutes
CAMA Matinee One (Friday) – 25 Minutes
CAMA Matinee Two (Saturday) – Closed
The 2012 CAMA Pre-Show – 6 minutes
The 2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards – 5.5 minutes*
*CAMA Performances are limited to 1 song
2012 Christian Acappella Music Awards Categories // Final